Honister.Com Outside Adventures
Sky Hi Café FREE Factory Trail It’s all on honister.com Open 7 Days a Week All weather • All ages • All adventure Open seven days a week. Locally sourced filled paninis, home honister.com made soups and cakes, ice-cream, hot and cold drinks. The best England’s last working BOOK ONLINE bacon butties in Borrowdale! Slate Mine 24hr Booking Facility Mine Tours, Via Ferrata’s, Climb in the Mine, Infinity Bridge, Retail, Trade and Café. mountain Honister, Honister Pass, Borrowdale, Keswick, Cumbria CA12 5XN. ADVENTURE SatNav.: CA12 5XN Grid Reference: NY 20587 / 14167 Tel: 017687 77230 Created by Nature to last a lifetime Group Discounts available. Group Educational Tours can be arranged. OUR REMARKABLE HERITAGE Q Visitor Centre compliant for those with disabilities. Visitor Centre n Dogs with owners on a lead are welcome in the Visitor Centre. Everything slate, including bespoke and the extremely unusual. & HISTORY We regret we are unable to accommodate them on tours. For house and garden. ‘Buttermere and Westmorland Green It is very likely that slate was worked at Honister shortly after Kennels are available, please ask. Slate’ is 450 million years old. It’s going to last! And they say our the Norman Conquest and by the late 1600’s it was well ladies’ powder room is better than those in Harrods! established. Early ‘open-sky’ workings were along the top of GETTING HERE Honister Crag but by the mid 1700’s slate mining had developed extensively with miners tunnelling into the crag to work rich By Car: From Keswick, take the B5289 signposted ‘Borrowdale’ to deposits underground.
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